Hi pranava!
Wanted to point out an interesting comment on the current SBV results thread by momofthree, particularly the part that it's unsuited for diagnosing ASD kids (sorry I don't know how to quote cross thread):
Momofthree wrote:
"I always find discussions of the sb5 v. Wisc on this board absolutely fascinating... Zen scanner commenting recently that it's not a good test for gifted kids for example, and the general belief here seems to be that it's "harder" to do well on the SB5 than the wisc4. Where as, there is a distinct prejudice in Australia that "everyone is gifted on the sb5"... Which is not at all the case, what is the case is that it is used almost exclusively by gifted specialists here, so they only see kids whose parents think they are gifted. And it's never used diagnostically (asd or ADHD assessments) and for good reason.
There is Australian research comparing the sb5 and the WPPSI3 which concluded that they are very comparable with a small number of children doing inexplicably better on one or the other. They excluded a lot of potential causes of this (test order for example) and concluded that the only real possible reasons were that some kids were much better suited to one or the other test and that smal children are fickle and have good and bad days..."
Last edited by Tigerle; 09/29/14 01:09 AM.
